Cummings’ first novel and first solo book appearance. A classic American WWI novel based on his experiences in prison at Ferté Macé, a French detention camp, in 1917. Second issue with "Shit!" censored in black ink on page 219, last line. Firmage A2. Provenance: From the library of noted James Joyce collector and scholar James Fuller Spoerri (1899- ), with his bookplate on the front pastedown and his original receipt for this book (purchased at Walden Book Shop in Chicago), laid in. Also, newspaper article tipped-on memo paper with printed initials “WG” discussing Cummings’ The Enormous Room by Ben Ray Redman clipped from the Chicago Herald-Tribune inside mailing envelope postmarked 9/3/1930, laid in.